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Today is birth anniversary of an online friend that I never met in person. He lived in Bangalore and me in Goa… and there was no further chance for us to meet as Mohan Pai passed away on 15 June in 2010.

 

But he was not just a virtual friend; we were virtually as good friends as two persons could be. We never met, yet we could and would connect with each other. We spoke regularly to each other on phone and through email & Facebook.

 

The initiative to keep in touch was largely his. We talked about our blogs, the environment, temple architecture and many things of common interest. On his recommendation, some of his fiends would drop in to see me during their trips to Goa.

So often, we insist that friendship is strained by distance. While physical proximity helps nurture a relationship, it may also becoming overbearing by constricting the space in between.

 

Relationships require only closeness of communication that comes from an interest to interact with each other... as seen in the case of Mohanbab who remains among my list of close friends, although our connection was only online over just three years.

My online friend built a real relationship

It is the connection that binds a kinship!

- Pravin K. Sabnis